Word: parkes
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Harvard has also experienced recent security problems on the perimeter of its campus. An assistant professor was beaten in John F. Kennedy Park nearly two months ago, and a female undergraduate was raped near Memorial Drive in September...
Except for gravy and pie crust, which take patience and practice, Thanksgiving dinner is as easy to make as it is to eat. You're a right-handed batter in a park that's 150 feet down the left-field line--it doesn't take a genius to poke...
...Television who became president of CBS Entertainment in July, admits the network made some programming mistakes--among them, trying "to change the demographic profile of the network too much, too fast." CBS's traditionally older audience simply did not go for hip young shows like the much hyped Central Park West. "It should have been aimed a little more middle-of-the-road," says Moonves. Yet he is predictably upbeat about the chances for a CBS turnaround: "There's a change in attitude and morale. Everybody is feeling like this is a rebuilding year, but we can do something here...
Autobiographer and Israeli journalist Yossi Klein Halevi was raised on the rim of Borough Park, a section of Brooklyn then heavily populated with deeply religious Holocaust survivors and their American-born children. His father, who came from a small Hungarian village, escaped the death camps by fleeing into the forest, where he hid for a year in a 4-ft.-deep hole. Even as a successful candy wholesaler in the U.S., he felt hunted and angry, especially at the "Nice Irvings," his term for America's assimilated Jews who laughed at Borscht Belt humor and turned, as he said...
...book remains the early Brooklyn years, with its accounts of fractious religious sects, wonder rabbis, drug pushers in yarmulkes selling "jointelehs," and the Jewish Press warning of a holocaust of assimilation while it supports a fund drive to circumcise Jews secretly in Russia. Why does Halevi's Borough Park jump with life while his Jerusalem seems strangely sedate? The answer can be found partly in a pithy line he wrote about his father's generation: "Where you came from is more important than where...